White v. State

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

Following a bench trial, Melissa White appeals from the trial court’s order granting the State’s forfeiture complaint against her 1995 Jeep Cherokee, contending that the complaint named the wrong property, the officer did not develop probable cause during her continued detention, and the taking of the Jeep violated the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against excessive fines. Finding no error, we affirm.

Viewed with all inferences in favor of the trial court’s findings, the evidence was that, around midnight of August 28, 2001, Deputy Sheriff Welborn, in uniform and…